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Gender and Neoliberalism Elisabeth Armstrong

Gender and Neoliberalism By Elisabeth Armstrong

Gender and Neoliberalism by Elisabeth Armstrong


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This book explores how the All India Democratic Women's Association (a socialist women's organization based in India) has flourished in neoliberalism's shadow.

Gender and Neoliberalism Summary

Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics by Elisabeth Armstrong

This book describes the changing landscape of women's politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. Between 1991 and 2006, the doctrine of liberalization guided Indian politics and economic policy. These neoliberal measures vastly reduced poverty alleviation schemes, price supports for poor farmers, and opened India's economy to the unpredictability of global financial fluctuations. During this same period, the All India Democratic Women's Association, which directly opposed the ascendance of neoliberal economics and policies, as well as the simultaneous rise of violent casteism and anti-Muslim communalism, grew from roughly three million members to over ten million. Beginning in the late 1980s, AIDWA turned its attention to women's lives in rural India. Using a method that began with activist research, the organization developed a sectoral analysis of groups of women who were hardest hit in the new neoliberal order, including Muslim women, and Dalit (oppressed caste) women. AIDWA developed what leaders called inter-sectoral organizing, that centered the demands of the most vulnerable women into the heart of its campaigns and its ideology for social change. Through long-term ethnographic research, predominantly in the northern state of Haryana and the southern state of Tamil Nadu, this book shows how a socialist women's organization built its oppositional strength by organizing the women most marginalized by neoliberal policies and economics.

About Elisabeth Armstrong

Elisabeth Armstrong is an Associate Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Origins 2. Catalysts 3. Inter-Sectoral Praxis 4. Activist Research in Haryana 5. Anti-Casteism in Tamil Nadu 6. Anti-Violence in New Delhi and Chennai 7. AIDWA in the World. Conclusion.

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NPB9780415961585
9780415961585
0415961580
Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics by Elisabeth Armstrong
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2013-11-05
276
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